The Masters Of Past Time

In 1875 Eugène Fromentin toured Flanders and Holland to study Dutch painting. He visited churches, museums, and private collections, and jotted down his personal impressions on the spot. The result was The masters of past time--a delightful, sensitive book. In his own foreword Fromentin speaks modestly of his aim: "I shall merely describe, in the presence of certain pictures, the effects of surprise, pleasure, astonishment, and no less exactly of disappointment, which they happened to cause me." As a painter himself Fromentin was absorbed by the technique of the paintings he studied, and he describes the works with directness and simplicity, but also with a subtle and critical intelligence.--Back cover.

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Excerpt from The Masters of Past Time, or Criticism on the Old Flemish Dutch Painters Eugène Fromentin was born in 1820 at La Rochelle. He studied landscape painting under Cabat, and at the age of twenty-two travelled in the East, which had great influence on both his paintings and writings. His first great picture was "Les Gorges de la Chiffa," which was followed by a number of paintings, all of Eastern subjects. Perhaps his three greatest works are the "Bivouac au lever du jour," the "Fauconnier arabe," and the "Bateleurs nègres." His pictures are notable for "their delightful colouring and harmony of tones." Among his writings are Un Ètè dans le Sahara Dominique, a novel (the only one he wrote), and Les Maîtres d'Autrefois, which is translated here. It was written almost at the end of his life, and shows him to be "an enlightened critic and a master of style." He died at his birthplace in 1876. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Eugene Fromentin (1820-76) was born into a prosperous middle-class family in La Rochelle. He had achieved some success as a painter when in 1875 he was invited to write articles on Dutch painting for a journal. He made a trip to Flanders and Holland, and this is his account of that journey. For him the great masters of the past were the early Flemish masters and Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt and the Dutch and genre painters. He visited churches, museums and private collections to study their works, and jotted down his personal impressions on the spot.

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